I mentioned in a previous column that statistics published by Journal Citation Reports show that the Transactions on Magnetics is one of the most valued journals published by the IEEE. It is also an exceptional value. The nonmember subscription price is 5 to 10 times lower than competing journals that are "for profit," and the price to members of the Society is an order of magnitude lower than this. Further, for these prices, the Transactions publishes more articles per year than any other IEEE journal.
One of the ways that publication costs have been kept down for many years is the use of camera-ready copy in certain issues. Although this has been cost effective, the use of camera-ready copy presents two significant drawbacks. The first is the challenge of maintaining a uniformity of appearance comparable to the type-set issues. The editors have worked hard to refine formatting instructions for authors, and this combined with the conscientious efforts of authors has resulted in significant improvements in uniformity and appearance over the past several years. The second drawback is much more significant. The use of camera-ready copy seriously limits the ability to electronically search published articles. Many IEEE journals are now available on-line via the OPeRA program (see the IEEE web page for more details), and many libraries and institutions will rely increasingly on electronic versions of the All Society Periodicals Package from the IEEE over the next several years. The continued use of camera-ready copy will seriously limit the participation of the Transactions on Magnetics in these new electronic products and services.
Recognizing these issues, the Planning Committee led by President-elect Ed Della Torre recently began work on plans for moving away from camera-ready copy, and completely eliminating it within the next two or three years. Although this will open many exciting new possibilities for the transactions as discussed above, it will involve changes in the way authors prepare their manuscripts. At least in the short run, it will also involve some additional costs. The Magnetics Society will help to offset some of the transitional costs, but creative ways of financing these significant improvements will also be needed. Your thoughts on these issues will be welcome. I am really excited about the possibilities this will open for the Society, and the new ways for disseminating the latest information on applied magnetism that this will make possible.
In this last article as president, I would like to conclude by saying that I have considered it a privilege to serve the Magnetics Society these past two years. I believe we are on the verge of a number of exciting developments and plans for the Society including electronic publications, improved member services, globalization, and membership growth. The best times are ahead!
The officers for the Magnetics Society for 1999 are:
| President: | Edward Della Torre | dellator@seas.gwu.edu |
|---|---|---|
| Vice President: | Robert Fontana, Jr. | fontana@almaden.ibm.com |
| Secretary/Treasurer: | Ron Indeck | rsi@ee.wustl.edu |
| Past President: | Daniel D. Stancil | stancil@gauss.ece.cmu.edu |
The 43rd Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Conference was held November 9-12, 1998 at the InterContinental Hotel in Miami, Florida USA. The conference was well-attended with more than 1000 participants. There were 533 oral contributed presentations, 33 invited presentations and 397 poster presentations, a record number of presentations for the MMM conference. Topics covered in the presentations included thin films, permanent magnets, microwave magnetics, magneto-optics, magnetic multilayers, magnetic recording, including heads and media, GMR and CMR, and biological and chemical applications of magnetism.
There were three special evening sessions at MMM '98. On Sunday evening there was a tutorial on National Facilities Open to the Magnetism Community. An introduction was made to the types of research in magnetism at some of the National Laboratories. On Monday evening there was tutorial chaired by Prof. Stanley Charap entitled "Magnetic Time Effects and Their Implications for High Density Magnetic Recording (Superparamagnetic Limit). There were three presentations with thermal stability in magnetic volumes, a germane topic as the disk drive industry contemplates storage density in excess of 20 Gigabits/sq. in. (The maximum density currently in production is about 5 Gb/sq. in.) On Wednesday evening, Dr. Robert McMichael chaired the session entitled "Standard Problems in Micromagnetics". Several speakers, including Prof. Arrott, discussed their solutions to the standard micromagnetic problems posed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) at http://www.ctcms.nist.gov/~rdm/mumag.org.html The lively presentations and discussion manifested that there is interesting ongoing research in micromagnetic modeling.
In addition to obtaining technical information, conferences are a venue for engineers and scientists to network with their colleagues. MMM '98 provided an excellent environment for personal interaction. There was a bierstube held in the afternoons in the exhibit area. The poster area was roomy and conducive to discussion with the presenters. The Miami ambience contributed to the success of the conference. The weather was balmy and mostly dry and the boat cruise on Tuesday evening was sold out.
Six members of the Magnetics Society were recently elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow after evaluation by the IEEE Magnetics Society. The new Fellows and and the contributions leading to their awards are as follows.
In addition, Magnetics Society Member Sihgekazu Sakabe, of Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Amagasaki, Japan was elected to Fellow by the Power Engineering Society "For contributions to the analysis and development of electrical machines".
There are three Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers for 1999-2000. The lecturers, the titles of their presentations and contact information are below. More information on Magnetics Society Distinguished Lecturers is available at http://yara.ecn.purdue.edu/~smag/distlect/distlect.html
The objective of the IEEE Magnetics Society Newsletter is to publicize activities, conferences, workshops and other information of interest to the Society membership and technical people in the general area of applied magnetics. Copy is solicited from the Magnetics Society membership, organizers of conferences, officers of the Society and local chapters and other individuals with relevant material. The Magnetics Society Newsletter is published approximately four times a year at the Magnetics IEEE Magnetics Society Web Page.
Please send articles, letters and other contributions to one of the co-editors:
Prof. John Nyenhuis
Purdue University
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1285
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Intermag '99 will be held on Tuesday through Friday, May 18-21, at the Hotel Hyundai in Kyongju, Korea. The registration desks will be open on Monday, May 17, 1999. Full details regarding hotel reservations, Conference registration fees, and forms will appear in the Advance Program which will be mailed by February 10.
The General Chair for Intermag 99 is Prof. Il Koo Kang of the Korea Institute of Science and Technology ( ikkang@kistmail.kist.re.kr and the U.S. General Chair is Prof. Mark Kryder of Carnegie Mellon University ( kryder@gauss.ece.cmu.edu.
Kyongju is located about 350 km south-east of Seoul. The most straightforward way to travel there is to fly to Pusan and then take surface transportation. On Sunday, May 16 and Monday, May 17 the the conference organizers will provide direct ground transportation from the air terminal of Pusan airport to the Kyongju Hyundai Hotel with sufficient frequency. On other days one can take limousine bus service to Kyongju Bus Terminal from Pusan airport and take taxi to the Hotel. If you buy your tickets early, air travel to Pusan is surprisingly affordable. One can check prices at http//: www.expedia.com. For example, assuming a departure date of May 14 and returning on May 23, the round trip fare leaving from Chicago is about $960, and from San Francisco the fare is about $735.
Intermag '99 will be held in a beautiful and historic area. Kyongju is the old capital of Shilla Kingdom (up to 10th century) and there are many old cultural remains (many Buddhist) which were designated by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage. A number of tours are available for conference participants and their companions. The venue, Hyundai Hotel, is located by a lake in the resort area. Room rate including tax and services is about $100 US at the current exchange rate.
Detailed information on Intermag '99 is available at http://intermag99.kist.re.kr or by sending email to intermag@kistmail.kist.re.kr
We hope to see you in Kyongju!
The Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism (MISM), devoted to the memory of E.I. Kondorskii, will be held June 20-24, 1999 at M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia. The conference will be held in English.
The deadline for submission of abstracts, which may be submitted by email, is March 15, 1999. The main topics of the conference are Micromagnetism and Magnetization Reversal, Transport Phenomena, Itinerant Magnetism, Magnetic Semiconductors, Magnetooptics, Low Dimensional Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, and Miscellaneous. Participants requiring a visa for entry to Russia are strongly recommended to fax the first and second pages of their passports to the conference office, Fax +7-095-932-8820 or +7-095-939-5907, no later than February 28, 1999. Only in this case can the Organizing Committee guarantee that you will obtain a visa in time.
MISM will be held at Moscow State University, the premier academic institution in Russia. The campus is pleasant and the air is clean. It is easy to travel with the Moscow Metro (subway) from the campus to central Moscow and other parts of the city. Moscow State University was the site of the preceding two Conferences on Magnetic Materials for Microelectronics, in 1996 and 1998, each of which had about 300 participants.
The registration fee is $200, which includes admission to all scientific sessions, a conference book with program and abstracts, the conference proceedings, meeting at Sheremetevo airport and assistance in getting to the conference desk and hotel, a get-together party, and coffee and tea breaks. Rooms are available at the university and at the Yushnaya hotel. Prices range from $20 - $40 per night. Each room has private facilities but limited services. Participants may also stay at one of the modern hotels in Moscow, generally at significantly higher rates. Reservations should be made before June 1, 1999.
More information on MISM can be obtained by contacting Dr. Nikolai Perov ( perov@magn.phys.msu.su) and at the conference web site ( http://magn.phys.msu.su/~mism).
The Impact of Sound, Images and Video on Storage
The 1999 NSIC Storage Users Symposium
Monday, June 21, 1999
Monterey Plaza Hotel, Monterey, CA
Last years theme proved to be so popular with attendees, NSIC will use it again for this year's Storage Users Symposium. All of the presentations will discuss advanced applications with challenging requirements that will fuel future demand for digital storage.
The presenters will contribute unique views of storage and the problems facing their organizations in implementing their specific applications. None of them is satisfied with what's available today. Be prepared for some challenges!
Dr. Milt Halem of NASA will be our kickoff speaker. In addition to giving us a snapshot of storage at NASA Goddard, Dr. Halem will present a summary of the provocative paper he developed for RCI, Ltd. (a consortium serving High Performance Computing Users) entitled, "The Coming Crisis in Mass Storage."
Professor Micah Beck of the University of Tennessee, one of Internet2's chief designers will be joining us. He will discuss the demanding storage requirements of Internet2 brought about by the need to move high volumes of images across this new network.
Other presentation topics that we are working to include in the Symposium are:
Set-top Storage
Storage in Petroleum
Medical Imaging
Military Satellite Imaging
Fingerprint Identification
Storage and Recall of News Event Video Clips
3-D Art Object Representation
Microdisks in Digital Photography
Recording of Worldwide Seismic Events
Automotive Engineering
For information and a complete registration package please contact
National Storage Industry Consortium at
(619)621-2550, (619)621-2551 fax.
http://www.nsic.org/
Tuesday, June 22, 1999
Monterey Plaza Hotel, Monterey, CA.
Computer applications are devouring storage capacity as fast as it can be provided. One of the major limiting factors for future applications, especially those involving sound and image data, is the lack of data storage. Today, maverick researchers are working to develop alternative means of increasing storage capacity and performance. Are they on the road to success? What are the hurdles they face? Will their new technologies be affordable? What, if anything, will replace the disk and tape drive? The National Storage Industry Consortium will again explore the outer limits of data storage.
Symposium attendees will have the unique and rare opportunity to look into the long term future of data storage technology. Researchers will talk about their successes and challenges in exploring new storage approaches. They will discuss the technical, as well as commercial, feasibility of their new technologies. Following their presentation each speaker will open up the floor for questions. Plan to attend this Symposium and be armed with the vision of what future technologies may emerge in the data storage industry.
Topics being considered:
Near-Field Optical
Optical Tape
Multi-Level Optical
Holographic
Volumetric (Photopolymers)
Volumetric (Liquid Crystals)
Spectral
Ion Beam
MEMS
Probe
Proteins
OROM
>For information and a complete registration package please contact
National Storage Industry Consortium at (619) 621-2550, (619) 621-2551 fax
http://www.nsic.org/
The Forty-Fourth Annual Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, (MMM'99) will be held at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, California, USA, November 15-18, 1999. The Conference annually brings together scientists and engineers interested in recent developments in all branches of fundamental and applied magnetism. Emphasis is placed on experimental and theoretical research in magnetism, the properties and synthesis of new magnetic materials, and advances in magnetic technology. The program will consist of invited and contributed papers. Selection of contributed papers is based on abstracts which are due May 15, 1999. Abstract booklets will be made available at the conference, and proceedings will be published in the Journal of Applied Physics. Individuals who are not on the Conference mailing list may obtain Conference information and details concerning the preparation of abstracts by contacting the Conference Coordinator:
The latest information on the conference can be obtained on the World
Wide Web via the conference web site:
http://www.magnetism.org
September 18-21, 2000
Conference Calendar
http://www.aps.org/centennial/index.html
18th Annual Conference on Properties and Applications
of Magnetic Materials
For information:
Bonnie Dow
Illinois Institute of Technology
TEL: 312-567-6809
FAX: 312-567-8976
bonnie@ece.iit.edu
Intermag Conference, Kyongju, Korea
For information, email:
intermag@kistmail.kist.re.kr
http://intermag99.kist.re.kr
Electrosoft 99 -
Software for Electrical Engineering
Seville, Spain
For information:
Liz Kerr
Wessex Institute of Technology
Ashurst Lodge
Southhampton SO40 7AA
United Kingdom
TEL +44-1703-293223 FAX: +44-1703-292853
liz@wessex.ac.uk
http://www.wessex.ac.uk
2nd International Symposium on Hysteresis
Modeling and Micromagnetics,
Perugia, Italy
For information:
Prof. Ermanno Cardelli
University of Perugia
Institute of Energetics
Via G. Duranti, 1/A-4, 06125 Perugia, Italy
hmm99@unipg.it
http://olympus.unipg.it/hmm99
Moscow International Symposium on Magnetism (MISM)
For information:
Nicolai Perov or Alexander Granovsky
MISM, Magnetism Division, Department of Physics
M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University
Moscow 119899, Russia
TEL: +7-095-939-4787
FAX: +7-095-932-8820 +7-095-939-5907
mism@magn.phys.msu.su
granov@magnet.phys.msu.su
perov@magn.phys.msu.su
http://magn.phys.msu.su/~mism
The 1999 NSIC Storage Users Symposium
Monterey, California
For information:
National Storage Industry Consortium
(619) 621-2550, (619) 621-2551 fax
http://www.nsic.org/
TMRC, The Magnetic Recorcding Conference: Media
For information:
Michael Alex
KOMAG
1704 Automation Parkway
San Jose, CA 95193
TEL: 408-576-2149
FAX: 408-944-9255
michael_alex@komag.com
http://www.iist.scu.edu/iist/TMRC/TMRC99/TMRC_99.html
SMM 14 - Soft Magnetic Materials Conference
Balatonfured, Hungary
For information, email:
smm14@sunserv.kfki.hu
http://www.kfki.hu/~smm14/
International Symposium on
Electromagnetic Fields in Electrical
Engineering
Pavia, Italy
For information:
Prof. A. Savini
University of Pavia, Italy
savini@ipv36.unipv.it
http://etabeta.unipv.it/volta1999/isef99/
MSM 99 First Regional Conference on Magnetic and Superconducting Materials
Tehran, Iran
For information, email:
msm-99@sina.sharif.ac.ir
http://194.225.40.9/~msm-99/
44th Conference on Magnetism and Magnetic Materials,
San Jose, California, USA.
For information:
Courtesy Associates
2000 L Street NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
TEL: 202 973-8668
FAX: 202 331-0111
email
magnetism@courtesyassoc.com
http://www.magnetism.org/
Intermag Conference, Toronto, Canada
For information:
Courtesy Associates
2000 L Street NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
TEL: 202 973-8668
FAX: 202 331-0111
email
intermag@courtesyassoc.com
The International Conference on Ferrites, Kyoto, Japan
For information:
Prof. Masahiko Naoe
Dept. of Physical Electronics, Tokyo Institute of Technology
2-12-1, O-okayama, Meguro-ku
Tokyo 152-8552 Japan
TEL: +81-3-5734-2575 FAX: +81-3-5734-2513
naoe@pe.titech.ac.jp
http://spin.pe.titech.ac.jp/icf8/
8th Joint MMM-Intermag Conference
San Antonio, Texas USA
For information:
Courtesy Associates
2000 L Street NW, Suite 710
Washington, DC 20036
TEL: 202 973-8668
FAX: 202 331-0111
email
magnetism@courtesyassoc.com